Psh I am innocent. I swear
Noticing Arctus looking at the time, Karina spared a glance at her hand. Shit. They were almost out of time. There was a fire that burned now in Karina, not out of anger for the time she wasted fighting Arctus but a fire burning leading her to what she knew she had to do. No more playing nice and having a friendly spar, there was something that she had to do, a battle that she must win. Through a blitz of upper cut attacks she broke through Arctus' already failing defenses. She then turned around kicking him back making him stumble enough that she could move in close, bringing her keyblade up to his neck, her shoulder near up against his. "Sorry but I couldn't let you win. I have failed enough, now there is a promise I have to keep and I couldn't let anything stand in my way. Not even you." She whispered into his ear, holding her ground for another minute or two until she was certain that her victory in hand. Stepping back she looked at Arctus the fire in her eyes still burning. "I can't say I remember the last time I saw through one of my promises. Sorry that I couldn't have talked more or helped more, but I am sure you see it as well as I do now. I don't belong with Lea's little crew, I belong with the goody-two-shoes on the other side. I can't say I know how that happened, but I hope you understand, and forgive me." She told him before turning around looking towards the area around her not sure what to do now. "Hey whoever is running this, where the hell are you? We finished!" She called out, anxious to see how she did in the entire fight, see if she was indeed good enough to be a master, or if this entire fight was just to give her a false sense of confidence. She didn't know if she could keep herself from shattering completely if it turned out to be the latter of the two.
"I. I um. I didn't mean. Oh who cares." Karina didn't feel like trying to defend herself like this. She didn't know how to tell him what was going on in her mind. She didn't know what was going on in her mind. As Karina spun on her heal, moving away from an attack and opening herself for another attack on him she flashed him a smile. "Not magic." She retorted remembering once again how he did not know much about the keyblade and what you can do with it. "While magic is like your gravity or my fire, this is simply a trick, and ability of the keyblade." She explained to him before deciding it was best to put it away. "But if you don't want me to use them I will lay off. I won't make you suffer what I did to Beuce last battle." There was a small amount of light to her eyes when she mentioned him, like she really did miss him. Somewhere along the line he came to support her more than anyone she knew in her life. What he did for her brought back and showed her that she mattered. She shook this feeling quickly however as needed to focus as she barely tried to dodge one of his attacks only to be caught in the arm. Another attack contacted before Karina manage to get her rhythm back and blocking a few more before ducking under the last one, sweeping a leg around trying to take Arctus out with a trip attack.
